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Joan Stotts Graham

Joan Stotts Graham

July 8, 1940 – June 25, 2013

Joan Stotts Graham, age 72, of Crystal Bay, Nevada, and formerly of Boone, died June 25, 2013, at the Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, California. Funeral services will be Saturday, July 6, 2013, at 12:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Boone with Rev. Kristin Pike officiating. The casket will be closed. Burial will be in the Mineral Ridge Cemetery in Ridgeport.

Joan was born in Boone on July 8, 1940, the daughter of Vern and Lila (Thompson) Stotts. She graduated from Boone High School in 1958. Joan attended the University of Iowa and received her Bachelor’s Degree from Cal State University in San Bernardino, CA. On September 14, 1963, Joan married Elmer ‘Alex’ Graham in Boone.

Following Alex’s employment, the couple lived in Washington State, Southern California, and Nevada State. Joan worked as a substitute teacher but was a devoted wife, mother, and homemaker. She enjoyed traveling, especially overseas, cooking at home, and dining out.

Joan is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband Alex of Crystal Bay; a daughter Elizabeth Graham and husband John Saunders of Colleyville, Texas, and their children Emma and Ryan; two sisters Jeanette Hickman-Kingsley of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Judith Fredrickson and husband Leigh of Puxico, Missouri; and several nieces and nephews.